Friday, January 28

ENGLISH - 2nd trimester – Day 34

Choose one of the following 2 script choices (you should remember them from before) and write out 10 lines of dialogue for one of the two scenarios:

1. Write a scene between a mother and daughter in which a conflict arises because the daughter wants to go out with a boy that the mother dislikes.  As the daughter, justify why you should be given permission.  As the mother, state reasons why you oppose this date. 
2. Write a scene between a father and son in which a conflict arises because the son wants to go to a party being given by a person or family the father disapproves of.  As the son, justify why you should be given permission.  As the father, state reasons why you oppose this.

Next we reviewed the definition of subtext: Thoughts we imagine characters to have as they speak certain lines…we then rewrote our script (from above), but this time, we only wrote what we imagined the characters were thinking while they were saying their lines. We shared these at our tables.

Before collecting homework, we divide our scenes from last night’s homework into 3 and with a partner, wrote subtext for each character, each time he or she spoke. We wrote this subtext on the original script. We then shared these at our tables.

Collect homework: Script cutting exercise – cutting 1/3 of lines from Act 3 scene 3 or 5 (see handout) – keep essential elements – do not destroy the meaning of the scene – cut approximately 1/3 of the lines

Announce test on Act 3 – Monday – it will be 22 key quotations from Romeo & Juliet Act 3 – you are to identify the speaker of each quote.

Finished watching Act 3 of Romeo & Juliet (1968 version) – if time, watched Diff’rent Strokes version of Romeo & Juliet.

Homework:

Study for Monday’s Act 3 quotations test.

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PLAYWRITING – Day 34

Discussed what made most of yesterday’s “car keys” scenes not real and not honest - re: begging for car keys on our knees? When was the last time any of us literally begged on our knees? Dramatic, maybe. Honest and real, no.

We reviewed the persuasive tools we created - see blog entry for January 4

Discussed how each of our characters needs to be “situationally” empowered (by us the writer) – creating a history for each character – knowing where they just came from before the scene begins – knowing what they want in the scene.

Wrote the rest of the hour…individually rewriting our homework…this time, including real conflict, believable conflict, honest confrontations….

PLAYWRITING homework:

Finish classwork mentioned above for Monday.